Detachable hanger



Feb. 3, 1931. J. E. WILSON 1,791,019

DETACHABLE HANGER Filed April 4. 1929 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Feb.3*, 1931 malt-l9 DETACHABLE HANGER Application filed April 4,

The immediate object of my invention is the provision of an inexpensivehanger for fire buckets which may be quickly and easily attached to ordetached from a supporting column, which may be adjusted to any desiredheight and which, while permitting the fire buckets to be instantlyremoved, main.- tams them in a vertical position and also pro-.-

' in 's'devoted to business uraoses there are.

columns from which fire buckets may be con veniently suspended. However,the attachmentof suitable hangers is generally difficult since thecolumns are either of steel so that they have to be drilled and tappedfor machine screws, or of concrete to which the secure attachment of thehanger iseven more difiicult. It often happens that the suspension hooksbecome loose so that the pails are likelyto fall. Furthermore, in manyfao-- tories there is a great deal of vibration,

-which frequently causes the lire pails to swing and to spill part oftheir contents. Obviously, such conditions are not only annoying butdangerous since the buckets are likely to be found only partly filledwhen emergency arises requir ng the1r use My 1nvent10n is designedprimarily to a]:- ford an elficient support or hanger for lire bucketsand the like which will eliminate these defects and diliiculties andwhich will 40 provide suspension which is not only safe and eficien butinexpensive, easily applied and adjustable] Y r. p

in the drawings accompanying the specification Figures 1 and 2 areelevations illustratinga preferred form of my invention applied tocylindrical column; e Figure 3 is a plan view of the same form of myinvention; and V.

Figure 4 is a plan view showing'a form of 1929. Serial no. 352,534.

my holder adapted for use with columns of rectangular cross section. I

. The same reference numerals refer to the same elements in all thefigures. i 1 v ,7 l is a column of circular, rectangular or other crosssection, such as is ordinarily found infact'ories, loft building s, an dthe like. Around this columnatany desired height, my holder may beclamped. The holder consistsof :yokes, 2 and-v 3, each of I which; are.suitably shaped ,to fit closely around a little less than. one-half ofthe column. One end of each yoke terminates in an arm 4, which when thehangeris in position, projects outwardly at right angles to'the tangentof the column-in the case of. a cylindrical column or at. rightanglestofthe face of the column inthe case of a teenage; lar. orsquare'Column; The outer end of arm l may-be notched or otherwise shapedto afford a definite point ofsupport for the bail of the bucket.Theother end 5 of each yoke is so bent thatit'lies in the same plane asthe arm l or in aplane parallel thereto so that when the hanger ,isassembled on the column] w'ith'the arms extendingjin diametri callyopposite directions,the end 5]of' one half will be parallel to andslightly eparated from the, innerend of arm,. l' of, the other half.Then by means of bolts '6 pass to ing through suitable holesinends 5 andthe of arms 4, the hanger maybe tightly clamped to'the column as shownin Figures Sandl.

It will be observed that my -hanger be made of ordinary'materials," asfor example, strap iron, the only consideration being-that. it must besufficiently-rigid to support the weight of the buckets. Furthermore, itmay consist of only two partajexclusive of the to bolts,'-which partsmay be readily stamped out or formed by any other quick and ineX-pensive manufacturing method. 7 a

In many factories, vibration of a periodic nature occurs so that firebuckets which are freely suspended are caused to swing and spill atleast part of their contents. The formofmy invention illustrated in the'draW- ings provides against this obviously serious, matter in thefollowingmanner: 10c

A downwardly projecting arm 7, which 7 may be made of the same materialas the hanger proper, is bolted or riveted at one end to each yokeadjacent the base of arm 4: in such a manner that when the hanger is inposition the arm 7 rests against the column f and extends verticallydownward. At the loWer end of each arm 7 is affixed at its midpoint, ahorizontally disposed arcuate member 8 formed on a radius of curvatureto approximately coincide with the curvature of the fire bucket it isdesigned to support. It

is not necessary that this supporting member 8 Should be particularlystrong or ,rigid'so that its curvature may be varied by bending to suitthe shape of any particular bucket. It will be noted that the support 8engages only a fraction of the circumference of the bucket and in no Wayinterferes with the removal thereof from the hanger, while at the sametime it efiectively keeps the bucket from swinging.

Inorder' that the bucket may be properly supported and yet hangVertically,the outer end of arm 4: may be oiiset as muchas required asshown in Figures?) and 4:, so' that the hook will be symmetricallypositioned with respect'to the arcuate member.

Obviously numerous structural modifications arepossible withoutdepartingfrom the essential idea disclosed in my invent on. For"example, if desired, both hooks may be j formed on one-half of eachhanger, the other half consisting of simply a similar yoke with V outhooks. i

What I claim is: p

A suspension hanger for pails comprising a pair of strap members eachhaving a short arm at one end and a long arm at the other and anintermediate yoke portion, the yoke portions forming complementalclamping members adapted to engagearound a supporting column, means tosecure the short arm of one strap member against the long arm of theotherstrapmemberto clamp said complemental yoke members around thesupporting column and a depending member secured to each strap memberand formed with arest portion at its lower end, said depending memberbeing so positioned that the rest member is directly below andsymmetrically disposed with respect to the long arm.

- JAMES E. WILSON.

